First a pic of all you need to make it.
Først et billede af de ting, som skal bruges for at lave dem.

Here´s some images, that I´ve cut out of some napkins, and you don´t need to cut them too close to the image, as the edge wount show that clear.
Her er det nogle billeder, som er klippet ud af servietter. I behøver ikke klippe helt int il, da kanten ikke blir så kendt.

BUT make sure that you ONLY use the very top layer and peel the rest of and throw away.
MEN sørg for at I får skilt alle lagene ad og KUN bruger det lag med billedet på.

Here it´s different stamps, I have stamped on very thin silk paper and then colored, but you can do just as you like, and you can also just print in the silkpaper, if you like, that´s all up to you.
Her har jeg stemplet forskellige stempler på silkepapir og farvelagt, men det kan man gøre som man vil, og man kan også bare printe noget ud på silkepapiret, men så skal man nok lige sætte det fast på et stykke papir først for at få det gennem printeren.

Once you know exactly where you want everything, you take them one at a time and place on the candle, and then you wrap the bakingpaper really tight around it, to make sure it stays, where it should and to keep it totally flat on the candle.
Når du ved nøjagtigt, hvor de skal være, ta´r du dem en af gangen og sætter dem på plads og sætter bagepapiret stramt rundt om til at holde dem på plads og holde dit billede helt fladt mod lyset.

Here it is all wrapped ready to heat on now.
Her er detpakket op, helt klar til at begynde og varme på.

And then you just heat it with the heatgun for a few minutes, while you keep moving the heat tool around all the time, so the candle wount melt. Keep the heatgun about 10 to 15 cm over the cande.
Og så varmer du ellers bare på billedet gennem bagepapiret i et par minutter, mens du hele tiden bevæger varmepistolem rundt, så du ikke smelter lyset på et sted. Hold varmepistolem ca. 10 til 15 cm over lyset, mens du arbejder.

Here´s one side of the candles with stamped images on.
Her er den ene side med de stemplede billeder.

And the other side.
Og her den anden side.

And here´s the first side with the napkins on
Og her er den første side af dem, der er brugt servietter på.

And the other side.
Og her den anden side.

Now you´re ready to begin to decorate your candles further, and on the following pictures you can see some different things, that I´ve chosen to use for mine, but it´s only your own imagination, that sets the limits here. Just always think about, it is candles, so it has to be something, that wount burn, or at least make sure the reciever knows, they need to be careful with it then.
Nu er I så klar til at begynde at dekorere lysene yderligere, og på de næste billeder kan I se, hvad jeg har valgt at bruge til mine, men her er det kun fantasien, der sætter grænserne. Bare altid husk på, at det er levende lys, så det skal helst være noget, der ikke lige brænder, hvis uheldet er ude, eller i hvert fald gør modtageren opmærksom på at der er noget, som kan brænde så.

This is a metalplate, that I have curved over a finger to make it fit for the candle.
Her er det en metalplade, som jeg har buet hen over et par fingre, for at tilpasse det lysets kurver.

And here´s a metalband, and some brads, that I use to attach the band to the candle.
Og her er det et metalbånd, som jeg har brugt og nogle brads, som jeg bruger til at sætte båndet fast til lyset med.

And here´s both sets of candles all done.
Og her er så begge sæt lys færdige.

The big set with stamps close up.
De store lys med stempelbilleder tæt på.

Here you can see, how I´ve attached the metalplate and the band with the brads.

And here the stamped images. / Og her ser I de stemplede billeder også.

And very close up. / Og her meget tæt på.

And here they finally all are completely done and ready to wrap as a gift to someone.
You can either make a nice box, that´ll fit exactly for these r you can wrap it up in some cellofane and close it with a nice ribbon and beautiful bow at the top. I most time makes a nice box for them, but that I can maybe show another time thoug.
Og her er de så alle fuldstændig færdige og klar til at blive pakket pænt ind til en gave til en eller anden. Du kan enten lave en flot æske, som passer lige til lysene, eller du kan pakke dem ind i cellofan og binde det med et flot bånd og sløjfe i toppen. Jeg laver for det meste en flot æske, der lige passer til lysene, men det kan vi måske tage en anden gang.

I hope, you´ve enjoyed my little tutorial here and it´s useful for some of you. If you have any improvements for it or just something, that can be done easier maybe, then I´ll love to hear from you, and ofcause also if you make anything from this, I would also love to hear and see it.

Monday, November 18, 2013

Hello sweet friends/ Hej allesammen,
And thanks so much for all the sweet comments here for my last entry too. It really means a lot to me, and makes it worth to keep on. I must confess, I still don´t have the biggest energy, but thanks god it does get better day by day, just way too slow in my world, but guess I must learn to get a bit more patient, even THAT definitely is NOT one of my strongest sides, I have to admit he he.

But as the headline says, I have finally managed to finish a couple of books for the girls, that I had promissed them a little while ago. It all started about ½ year ago, when Tascha had her birthday, and a very sweet blogfriend, Anna from Cuddlebug Cuties drawn her her very own personal digistamp even with her name, and back then I ofcause also had to make them something with that stampimage on, and Tascha asked for some small bags, I made for them then, so a while before it Trines birthday here 3 weeks ago, she came and asked, if I thought, she would also get her own stamp too, I had to say, that maybe Anna didn´t know, it was her birthday, as it was a coinsidense she heard about Taschas. But ofcause you can´t make too much difference to two siblings, so I mailed Anna and told her about this, and she answered me right away, that ofcause she would make one for Trine too, so the week before her birthday, this sweet lady uploaded the cutest free digistamp to her blog and even together with a wonderful card dedicated to Trine, so I could send the link to her mum to show her right away. I can tell you all, it was really awesome to hear her on the phone that morning, when she was dancing around and yelling, she made this just for me, and was so happy, it really made my day. And when I asked her, what she wished for for her birthday, she said right away, that she wished for a lot of her images printed out, and then she wanted me to make her a diary with this image on the front, and said too, that she knew, she also got a bag for Taschas birthday, so it was okay I made one for her too, but it just shouldn´t be the same color as hers and she wanted to pick first, and ofcause that wish was granted, as they all needs to feel special sometimes, and if not for their birthday, then when?

And here´s a very Happy Trine on her actual birthday, when she celebrated it with all her small classmates from school. As mum had to work that day, it was grandma and pa, who was celebrating the day with her at that time.
Og her er så en rigtig glad Trine på sin rigtige fødselsdag, som hun fejrede med alle sine små klassekammerater fra skolen. Da mor var på arbejde var det Mormor og morfar holdt det for hende derhjemme.

Here´s all the small girls coloring Trines stamp while they were eating their candybags .
Og her er alle de små piger, hvor de farver stempler mens de spiser slikposer på et tidspunkt på dagen.

And some of the images, that were colored and finished.
Her er nogle af de images, der blev farvet færdigt.

And that day I hadn´t got the books done, so had to make her the promisse, I would as soon as I could after her birthday, and now I´ve finally got them finished, so here they come:

Both books, that I made for the girls./ Begge bøger, jeg lavede til pigerne her.

The front of Trines book. / Fronten på Trines bog.

Inside the cover of Trines book. / Indepå coveret af Trines bog.

Backsite of trines book. / Bagsiden på Trines bog.

And the cover of Tascha´s book. / Og coveret på Tascha´s bog.

Inside the cover of Tascha´s book. / Indenpå coveret af tascha´s bog.

Backsite of tascha´s book. / Bagsiden på tascha´s bog.

And then hubby has also finished a project, he had promissed me to make long ago, and it was finally finished here lately too. It was a drawer for all my dies. Everybody who knows me, know that I am a bit addicted to cutting dies and have also been really lucky and won quite a few more times, so it was getting really hard to find the ones, I needed, when I should use them. If you remember from my craftroom pics, then I have this cuttingtable, and I wanted the dies to go in a drawer there right beside the cuttingmachines, so they were right on hand, when I needed them, so here´s what he made for me.

Thursday, November 14, 2013

First of all I want to thank soooo very much for all the sweet and wonderful comments, I got after my update yesterday, it really warms my heart to read all that, and I so apreciate all your nice words and wishes for me. You girls really are the best friends, anyone can get.
Aller først vil jeg lige sige tusind tusind tak for alle de søde og pragtfulde kommentarer efter min update igår. Det varmer godt hjertet, og jeg værdsætter virkelig meget at læse alle de super søde ord og ønsker for mig. I piger er simpelthen de bedste venner nogen mennesker kan ønske sig. Tusind tak skal I há.

As it says in the headline, then I have managed to get a few christmascards made the last month. I joined the christmascard class on Scrapsisters, which is the Danish Forum, I´m on, and I managed to get a couple of them done, before it all went all dead here.
I started to make 3 of the one for the first day and then one for the second day and then I´ve made one more besides these, so even it´s not much, I´m pretty happy about those, I have get done thoug, but see for yourself.

Here´s the 3 I made the first day of the class. It´s an envelopecard with tags inside. I really liked this one, and thought it was faster to make more the same time, as I need pretty many cards for christmas. And here´s the front of all 3 of them.
Her er de første 3, jeg lavede den første dag på kuset. Jeg vkunne virkelig rigtig godt li detn type kort her, så jeg lavede 3 med det samme, da jeg skal bruge ret mange julekort, og så er det hurtigere at lave flere ens af gangen. Her ser I først fronten af de 3.

And here´s the one close up. Og her etr det første tæt på.

And here´s with the tag outside too. Og her er taggen taget ud.

And here´s the back of both the envelope and the tag. Og her er bagsiden af både kuvert og tag.

The tag is doublle, and here it is inside. Taggen er dobbelt, og her ser I det indeni.

And the second one. Og her er det andet kort.

And finally the third card of these. Og endelig det tredje af de her kort.

And finally the back of the card here too. Og endelig er her så bagsiden af kortet også.

I hope, you like, what I had to share with you here today, and I would really love to hear, what you think of it, both good and bad critic as well, as that´s how I gets better.
Have a wonderful day everyone and hopefully lots of great fun too.

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Hi, My name is Maryann. I´m 54 y.o., married with 4 grown kids and 8 grandkids. We live in a very rural area, where the skyes are high and we can hear the birds singing in the morning, and see a fox run over the fields or a phesant walks around in the garden.

I´ve always been a crafter of some kind, but it´s devellopped quite a bit, since I disabled my back some years ago and got on healthretirement back then, so today I´m doing almost any thinkable craft, that´s involving paper or felt. I´m totally addicted to gorgeous paper and beautiful ribbons and bling. And I just love the challenge to make something creative out of all kinds of things, that all other people would throw in the trash. I love special folded cards and boxes and different giftwrapping and always looking out for new giftideas. I find my inspiration everywhere, it can be a book, a picture or something in the TV, or something quite different.

I hope, you´ll enjoy it inhere and I hope, I somehow can be an inspiration for you in your work too, and you´re always welcome to contact me and ask, if you have any questions about anything inhere, and I´ll always be happy to help, if I possibly can.